Except the “emergency capsule” is all of them, including Starliner. Because Starliner is perfectly capable of returning to earth safely.
Because every thruster that has shut down has hot fired okay, and the known helium leaks still leave enough margin to cover several multiples of the 5 hours or so of RCS operation that you need to get to landing.
This comes up on every one of these articles. The astronauts are in no way stranded.
There’s a common sense operating rule on the station: every person on board ISS must have a dedicated seat in a ride home that is ready to undock and leave within 30 minutes notice.
Right now, the Starliner capsule is certified and ready for that role for the two test pilots. The crew dragon and soyuz are docked to handle the rest of the station crew.
Earlier today there was an emergency shelter event on the station when some debris got unusually close. In this type of event all crew evacuate to the escape spacecraft and close hatches. So if something does hit the station, it’s less likely someone gets hurt during a depressurization.
Starliner served as an emergency shelter for this exercise, because it is certified for emergency reentry, and the five identified helium leaks are not close to preventing it from returning safely.
To get from ISS to a landing site requires no more than 5 hours of RCS operation. There is plenty of margin in the helium system to cover 5 hours.
These are all general opinion statements. There aren’t any verifiable facts like, “on this date at a meeting with x we discussed how AI project y is myopic and non-user-centered.”
To be fair it might actually be possible to find smut there.
These are both old men… They both take a lot of drugs. This is America. Have you seen an older person who doesn’t have weekly pill organizer?
So MRI helium is scarce because the required purity is very high to get the 4 Kelvin superfluid behavior. Helium for filling balloons (of the party type) is a lot, lot cheaper. I don’t know exactly how that translates into airship envelope helium, but you can’t take balloon-grade helium and put it in your MRI machine.
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The loading and unloading is a pain.
And the widest parts of I-10 are not the everyday choke points. Other parts of the system are the worst offenders on traffic.
Pretty sure DEA allows religious use of Ayahuasca because the government lost a court case on free-exercise-of-religion grounds.
No court case has established a specific right to treat cancer with psilocybin.
Stellaris on Steam has a fully-native Linux executable.
Except even Gentoo does binaries now (more than they used to).
I believe NASA may be required by law to procure the Boeing solution.
How reliable is this actually? There are a millions reasons for me to fake which is and web browser in using.
Shouldn’t this effect cause Linux use to be under reported? That is, the real percentage would be higher than 4%?
I would pretty strongly expect significant correlation between people who spoof their user agent and Linux users.
In 2020 I tried to buy a burner tracphone at a Walgreens, and the clerk was just shocked and incredulous that someone might really want to pay money for such a thing.
It’s also possible for a particular lightbulb to be expensive to replace because it’s in an awkward location, and takes hours of labor to gain access, or really specialized tools and equipment.
Not saying that happened here. But it’s certainly conceivable.
If I remember right, these fuselage assemblies get transported on a giant beluga-looking airlift airplane. Where the whole nose is the plane opens up to swallow fuselage sections whole.
If you ship the door plugs uninstalled, you’re probably looking at a while separate shipment.
There was an early news story where the subcontractor claimed that it wasn’t their responsibility to tighten the door plug bolts before delivering the entire fuselage subassembly to Boeing.
I haven’t been keeping up with this news in detail, so it certainly seems plausible to me that some planes were found to be missing bolts entirely.
Need to hit the pool, 'cause you’re so underdamped.
For a while the only electric aircraft around in the news was that solar flyer. Things are a bit different now.